The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-11-12
Wraten for The ArkansdW Trdveler. Simpsons Sermons. BY S. LEDNUM MYERS.
 Fifth Paper.
Fifth Paper.
BY S. LEDNUM MYERS.

Pards, it has been one of the upper f4ost thoughts ill my head to talk about eyesight. What we see and what we don't see in this busy world about Us will give any pair of eyes good reason to think they've got a good contract on their hands, at least if they begin to look early, and die at ninety with their eyes open.
 People born blind, who never had a chance to see it, are the only ones to be excused for neglectin' their early education in this line, and yet they have heaps O knowledge at their fin ger-ends.
 The difference in eyes is amazin' :; not so much in their color as in their power to look at an object. The steps from glance to steady gaze are sometimes very many and hard to climb. The sight at the bottom step differs from that on the top because of the steps.
 It's useless to strike steady gaze gait when glance will answer every purpose. A man is wastin' precious time tryin' to take in a pair of run away hosses with steady gaze, when a glance with one eye fills the bill, and shows him his duty to the uniortu- nate pleasure seekers thrown out of the carriage.
 It's astonishin' how rapid the nice young man walks by the Chinese laundry when John has his last months unpaid bill ready to dash at him. Strange how his eyes fill with dust right ill front of the door. Can't see the steady gaze of Johns almond eyes, you know.
 Brown sees Jones turn the street corner and comin' right toward him ; quicker than flash his hand goes to his jaw, strikin' good gait meets Jones and asks him the numDer of his dentists office, rushes on clearin' four feet at a step, turns the next corner, drops his hand and declares that he must pay Jones that two dollars and half borrowed a year ago. The dentists number is just seven doors above the cor ner he stopped at. Browns 'rith- metic had left him since he met Jones, he was figure blind. Jones is still tryin' to see the two dollars and fifty cents.
 One of the most common diseases of the eyesight is color blindness, that is, one would see green paper and insist that it should be yellow, while an- other was sure it was green.
 Some years ago this was prevalent disease all over the land, principally in the large cities, but with goodly number of cases scattered over the country. It began in place only ten miles square, where there was big printin' office overstocked with paper and barrels of green ink. A few wise heads got together and said, "put the ink on the rollers and the papers in the press and we'll call 'em green backs, and send a bundle to each o1 our agents in the country" Pards, you may have heard of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera and measles bein' carried from one place to another in emi- grants clothes, we'll, when them agents opened package, color blind ness struck the town and they couldn't stop it. The fact was, most everybody wanted the symptoms Ii they didnt catch the disease, and they were not SC "green" as you might think.
 A few miserly souls in Wall street who had the ''yellow" color- -blindnes. rather bad, tried hard to give theil medicine to the other fellers, but they charged too big price for dose. Eli. nally the government doctor set day to cure everybody of color blindness and sure enough when the day cam, they all woke up in the morning witt both eyes open, and saw "greeL" anG yellow" just as any sane persoI should. That doctor must have beer powerful on the "faith cure" plan.
 The female eye is one of the oddes things in the human race. For dis criminatin' purposes the male eye i not to be spoken of in comparin' thu two.
 The eye of woman may be closed ts many things about dress, but if it i ever wide open it's just as its ownel enters fashionable church on Eastel Sunday and slowly walks to pew il front. There's not eloquence enough in the universe to keep those eye